Leonard Freed

Martin Luther King returns to the United States after receiving the Nobel peace prize, Baltimore, 1964 Leonard Freed (1929-2006) is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. Over the years thousands of his photographs have been published in the international press. Freed, whose name became synonymous with that of "concerned photography", was a quiet man who preferred the language of black-and-white photography to prose to document the daily struggles of ordinary people. He is best known for his work on the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the Jewish community, Germany and the New York police. Until September 2, Lausanne's Musée de l'Elysée is holding the first major retrospective of Freed's work over the last 50 years. (All pictures: © Leonard Freed / Magnum, Photos.)
Harlem, New York, 1963
Harlem, New York, 1978
Death by overdose, Harlem, New York, 1972
March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Wall Street, New York, 1956
Florence, Italy, 1958
Naples, Italy, 1958
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, 1961
Jerusalem, Israel, 1962
Six-Day War, Jerusalem, Israel, 1967